POID Public Events
Hosted by LSE Department of Economics
Inclusion Week
What Makes an Inventor? Finding the Lost Einsteins and Marie Curies
John Van Reenen (LSE)
Monday 07 October 2024 18:00 - 19:00
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
About this event
John looks at the ways of raising growth and innovation through increasing the supply of inventors. The focus is on evidence that there are barriers by gender, class and race to becoming and inventor. Reducing these could quadruple the rate of innovation.
Participants are expected to adhere to the Events Code of Conduct.
This event will take place in SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH.
The building is labelled SAL on the map. Enter the building via Lincoln's Inn Fields.